DC's "Beyond" Team Takes Batman To The Digital Future

[CBR News]

DC Comics' digital-first comics continue to chart the DCU's future, and Adam Beechen leads part one of a roundtable interview on "Batman Beyond Unlimited" speaking about 10,000 Jokers,Tim Drake and cyberpunk surprises.


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[Cavemold]

I will probably drop this not enough story in it

[shingi70]

I will probably drop this not enough story in it

Seems like you should buy the print version because by design digital comics have a more serialized weekly format. Little info but comes out twice a month.

[Cavemold]

Seems like you should buy the print version because by design digital comics have a more serialized weekly format. Little info but comes out twice a month.

I do buy the print version . The last issue was lacking in story:(

[Scott M Davis]

Last issue was a little thin, but I am enjoying this title. I buy the print of digital. Well worth the 3.99.

[shingi70]

I do buy the print version . The last issue was lacking in story:(

That sucks. Isn't there like three stories in it though.

[Scott M Davis]

They Batman Beyond one was really short, and feels unconnected to the main BB plot line. The Superman and JL ones were great though.

[Cavemold]

That sucks. Isn't there like three stories in it though.

Yea but they are really short :/

[Scott M Davis]

Yea but they are really short :/

the digital comic you download is only 11-13 pages, and is 99 cents. I think if they went and renamed it DCU Beyond Unlimited, it would be better branded.

[MichaelPaytonMZ]

I'm loving the new Beyond strips every Wednesday. It's easily my favorite of the three DC Digital weeklies right now. Well worth a mere dollar a week for any fan of the DCAU.

[fredmanson]

I really like this new Beyond Unlimited comic book. I only buy the printed edition because I do not like to read digital comic books on my large LCD screen and I can not afford to buy a digital device (someone want to please me?? Buy me an iPad 3!!! )

I have dropped all the other DC Comics titles EXCEPT those which came from the digital department. The cover prices are really bargain with all the contents in these books (Beyond Unlimited and Arkham Unhinged). I hope to see more titles to come and why not, a new printed comic book edition!!!

About the story pace, I am used to read comic strips from the UK weekly Greatest' Galaxy Comic Book, which is 2000 AD. Each weekly strips are only 5-6 pages long, so the story is really condensed and it is a real pleasure to impatiently wait for the next installments!!!!

So, when I have started to read these 10 story pages, I was not surprised at all. On the contrary, I was really pleased. And with a low printed cover price, it is perfect!!!!

I think that DC Comics has really found the way to do and to sell digital comic books first: 10 pages at $0.99, it is really cheap!!! And, to have made the choice to reprint these stories in a printed edition at the same price of each digital episodes, it was the biggest and the best idea to bring "printed only" readers to these digital first comic books. It is a true economical concept to capture new customers to the digital first comic books AND to capture customers to their printed edition because of these low cover prices. The digital market and the printed market are not in concurrency in this case. They are complementing each other.

I repeat what I already have written but I expect to see more digital first comic books to come, so I will be very happy to buy their printed edition!!! You have hear that DC Comics??? So you know what to do next, guys!!!!!

[Ron Cuthbert]

One thing that has been bugging me, and maybe someone here can clarify: Are the Beyond comics set in the future of the mainstream DCU, or are the purely continuations of the the DCAU material? I only ask, because there seems to be (contradictory) elements of both in the comics...

[Scott M Davis]

I think they are a continuing of continuity based on the previous DCU, and are trying to integrate the new universe on.

[MichaelPaytonMZ]

other than Hush, there's no reason to think this isn't the DCAU. It might simply be that Hush exists in both universes. In fact the latest JLB is the origin of Warhawk, which is entirely based on the JLU cartoon. There were a few references to Terry being Batman in the future of the mainline DCU, but he was being trained by an adult Damien, not an elderly Bruce. Bruce Wayne is definitely part of these comics.

[shingi70]

Its DCAU the newest JLB confrims it.